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Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion.

This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otros cuentos] 1959) and Perpetual Motion (Movimiento perpetuo 1972). Together, they reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

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Augusto Monterroso is the internationally renowned author of nine books, including The Black Sheep and Other Fables. A resident of Mexico since 1956, he won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, Mexico's highest literary honor, in 1975. Edith Grossman is an award-winning translator of contemporary Latin American literature. Her recent publi...

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Table of Contents

Before and After Augusto Monterroso by Will H. Corral

Complete Works (And Other Stories)

Mister Taylor

One Out of Three

Finished Symphony

First Lady

The Eclipse

Diogenes Too

The Dinosaur

Leopoldo (His Labors)

The Concert

The Centennial

I Don’t Want to Deceive You

Cow

Complete Works

Perpetual Motion

Flies

Perpetual Motion

It’s All the Same

Regarding Attributions

Homage to Masoch

The World

The Brain Drain

The Endymion Report

I Know You, Mask

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Jorge Luis Borges

Fecundity

You Tell Sarabia That I Said He Should Hire Her and Place Her Here or Wherever, That I’ll Explain Later

Homo Scriptor

Under Other Wreckage

How to Stop Being a Monkey

How I Got Rid of Five Hundred Books

The Maids

Solemnity and Eccentricity

Winning the Street

Humor

Paradise

It May Be True

Living Together

Height and Poetry

Christmas. New Year’s. Whatever

Choose One

Ever-Present Danger

The Outdoor Poet

Tender Rose

Brevity

Errata and Final Notice

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Augusto Monterroso is widely known for short stories characterized by brilliant satire and wit. Yet behind scathing allusions to the weaknesses and defects of the artistic and intellectual worlds, they show his generous and expansive sense of compassion.This book brings together for the first time in English the volumes Complete Works (and Other Stories) (Obras completas [y otros cuentos] 1959) and Perpetual Motion (Movimiento perpetuo 1972). Together, they reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative."Monterroso is certainly the leading living Guatemalan writer. . . . His microcuentos are finely honed, highly ironic, sophisticated pieces which are both very good literature and excellent pedagogical devices. I would liken his short stories to some of Borges' more accessible ones, with the added dimension of political commitment." - Cynthia Steele, author of Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988: Beyond the Pyramid